I say give the opponents an open-air car ride through Mexico City. I made the mistake of not getting an Uber Black and getting a regular Uber which had windows down. Myself and spouse almost puked after 10mins. The smog is absolutely terrible because they don't enforce vehicle regulations like working catalytic converters. The result is a toxic stew on the roads that will challenge your intestinal fortitude. After that experience, I'm sure they'll never talk smack about the EPA again.

All for a measley 1.3million bucks...a guy like this had to be making over $300k a year, so it's not incredibly life changing. It always amazes me when you look at how much moles like were paid to risk their freedom and betray people/their country, it's never a ton of money. 1.3mm gets you a nice house (or decent in a major city), but not much more. You could make more in ten years with a McDonalds franchise.

Apparently, you don't know what an anecdote or argument is versus facts, and would score poorly on reading comprehension. You were provided with sources from a well-researched scholarly journal and supporting followup arguments. You have conducted a non-peer-reviewed, methodologically unsound review of your own where you essentially manipulate data and then prognosticate and muse on political subjects. It's a rant with a veil of pseudoscience. For my own source (there are many on this subject) that without smallpox inoculation, you'd be singing God Save the King instead of my country tis of thee: https://www.nps.gov/articles/0...

Thank you for taking the time to produce a factual response to this crackpot. The anti vaccine crowd relies primarily upon changing facts to fit their desired reasoning, hoping no one checks..and if they do, discredit that valid information as being wrong in favor of their made-up numbers. Science however, since the days of Descartes, relies upon not knowing the answer and having facts lead us to a conclusion. Based on my knowledge of the facts, vaccines (including mRNA) have saved millions of lives, and millions more from paralysis or disability. Historians cite the live smallpox vaccine -- a very dangerous vaccine -- required by George Washington for all troops to be inoculated, as a critical decision. If General Washington didn't force it on all his troops, there is near certain chance the Americans would have lost the Revolutionary War.

It has for years. I am not sure what you are doing wrong but strongly suspect a PEBKAC. Here's the doc: https://faq.whatsapp.com/49059...

Whatsapp asks for a backup password, which applies symmetric encryption (AES). I have restored backups many times and needed to go to my password manager to retrieve my extremely long key. So no, if one sets a backup password, backups cannot be viewed by someone with access to the cloud storage it's saved in.

End to end doesn't mean TLS encapsulated. For the purpose of HIPAA and HITRUST, it means "encryption in transit." That's because data is going to the EMR server/db. In messaging, end to end encryption means encrypted on senders device for decryption only on the receiver's device. So no, having TLS doesn't give you end to end encryption and was never what was meant by WhatsApp when they said they had E2E, you can look at the specs of the Open Whisper Systems and later Signal protocol to see why.

I don't think that's how it happened at all. Original WhatsApp didn't have E2E encryption. After it's 2014 acquisition, in 2016 they implemented the Open Whisper systems E2E protocol.

Stallman's other critiques include criticism of Epstein's detractors (which is essentially any sane person) and of statutory rape laws.

Oral contracts are a thing, which one should avoid like the plague, because they're notoriously difficult to enforce. In common law jurisdictions, real property is treated very specially, for example in the US one typically requires a notary on any signature dealing with real property like a deed, quitclaim, etc; the instrument is invalid unless notarized.

That said, the texts went like this:

In my reading, that's an offer to sign over a share, not actually doing the signing and completing the transaction. It calls out "closing the financial part," and "then I can sign over," and not anything like, "I hereby sign over my interest to you." It feels like the wife is grasping at straws with this.

Sounds like this couple was a class act with the Icelandic financier husband being accused of addiction to meth and cocaine. The wife is a successful painter with an elite education who claims her only source of income is renting rooms in that home to Airbnb guests. She probably could teach, resume her painting career, do something for income... But she makes a choice of wanting a house and monthly support money from her now ex husband, and having strangers in the house with her kids. The text in question is more of an offer than anything and she replied accepting the house offer as long as there's also monthly money paid to her. Meanwhile he's declared bankruptcy and probably doesn't want to work to avoid paying her. At least their problems didn't set a precedent a WhatsApp message is a written contract.

I am not supporting Samsung at all with my comment. Where did I say anything positive about them? I'm just pointing out the obvious hypocrisy of a deceitful, corrupt person going after a deceitful corporation. In Texas, the wolves are guarding the henhouse and they've opened up a KFC.

Paxton's deceptive practices as a law enforcement official are some of the most egregious in the post-WWII era in America. They include:

Whistleblower Complaints (2020): Eight senior aides reported Paxton to the FBI, accusing him of bribery, abuse of office, and retaliation for helping Nate Paul, a real estate investor and campaign donor.

Extramarital Affair: Paxton admitted to an affair with a woman who was employed by Nate Paul, adding to the scandal and linking personal conduct to official duties. Impeachment (2023): The Texas House impeached Paxton on charges including bribery, misuse of official information, and abuse of official capacity, stemming from the Paul allegations.

Securities Fraud (2015): Paxton faces a long-running indictment for felony securities fraud, related to soliciting investors for a tech startup before becoming AG. Divorce & Adultery (2025): In mid-2025, his wife, Angela Paxton, filed for divorce, citing adultery, which has reignited public attention to his alleged infidelity.

Except that California is not responsible for fostering the data broker industry, like, at all? I think you're confusing adtech (which also sucks) with data brokers. Adtech platforms are often customers of data brokers but don't wholesale resell data like them. Data brokers have been around for a long time, the biggest is TransUnion in Chicago. The second biggest is Equifax in Atlanta...then Moody's in NY...the list goes on, but California isn't HQ to any of the largest data brokers. They've been harvesting data since the days of Publishers Clearing House (NY).

PBS content includes some great scientific documentaries, like NOVA and Nature, that would be very hard to consider "leftist propaganda." Of course, these days any TV programming aimed above an 8th grade education level is considered leftist. Educated audiences have never been the GOP's base, and given the current war on education it seems like anything intelligent, truthful and informative is branded "leftist." You can tune to OAN to watch low-IQ rightist content with little factual or educational value.